TY - GEN AU - V KUMARASWAMY TI - MAKING GROWTH HAPPEN IN INDIA: A ROAD MAP FOR POLICY SUCCESS SN - 9788132117926 U1 - 338.954 PY - 2014/// CY - NEW DELHI PB - SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC KW - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT KW - INDIA KW - ECONOMIC POLICY KW - 21ST CENTURY N1 - Foreword Professor (Dr) Gautam Ahuja Preface Acknowledgements I: EVALUATING THE CURRENT REFORM PROGRAMMES Economic Reforms, Social Fissures Laudable Goals Yet Defective Programmes Getting Some Basics Right II: ALTERNATIVE GROWTH PATH Reorienting Education to Develop Skills Creating Employment Creating Appropriate Market Structures Taming the Twins Creating New Growth Engines Feasibility and the Growth Potential of Suggested Actions Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography Index N2 - For India’s economic reforms policy to succeed, its programmes should be firmly anchored in the reality of the social and micro-institutional context—something our policy makers often regrettably ignore. To break out of 8 or 9 per cent growth rates, we need more appropriate skill sets, development of proper attitudinal infrastructure, increased capital productivity, a more optimal savings rate and deliberate creation of socially productive market structures in several areas such as healthcare, public distribution and higher education. Employment is the best way to deliver growth to the vast multitude and reconcile the growth fixation of reformists and socialistic obsession with distribution. The book suggests several unconventional growth engines which can potentially deliver both and make 12 per cent growth rates realistically possible. The book is aimed at people who aspire to take part, debate and shape our destiny but may not have the time for deeper research or patience with economic jargons ER -